Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being assiduous; constant or diligent application.
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- noun
Conscientious andunremitting diligence .
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- noun great and constant diligence and attention
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Examples
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I can't tell you with what assiduousness I ignored this recent thing with Beck daring to screw with Martin Luther King's legacy.
John Shore: And Yada, Yada, Yada ... Glenn Beck's a Christian 2010
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A penchant for flames ... war-watching and assiduousness!
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Despite this assiduousness, he inevitably faced gaps when he started to write.
David Remnick's 'The Bridge' Delves Deep Into Barack Obama's Presidency (New York Review) 2010
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Despite this assiduousness, he inevitably faced gaps when he started to write.
David Remnick's 'The Bridge' Delves Deep Into Barack Obama's Presidency (New York Review) 2010
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When I first learned a few months ago that garbage trucks were backing up the driveway between these two buildings at unseemly hours, it was curious but could maybe be explained by PMUA worker assiduousness.
Does the PMUA have a problem? Dan 2007
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When I first learned a few months ago that garbage trucks were backing up the driveway between these two buildings at unseemly hours, it was curious but could maybe be explained by PMUA worker assiduousness.
Archive 2007-10-01 Dan 2007
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Do you read other blogs with the assiduousness with which you read Roissy?
If Seven Hundred Roissys Typed For Seven Hundred Years.... juliette 2009
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If you truly possess the academic curiosity and work ethic that espouses such professional assiduousness when it comes to details, and especially pertaining to events involving suppression of human rights, you will no doubt want to look into some of the more subtle clues in our possession regarding 9/11 - like the many bombs going off all over the WTC site.
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But his assiduousness is strange, as if distracted from itself.
Happy Easter. Ann Althouse 2008
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The idea of the SOMAFCO X Trust is the brainchild of former students of Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College and I request you to show our appreciation in particular to three comrades: Oupa Mahlatsi, Tlholo Mohlathe and Motsamai Maleka to whose commitment and untiring assiduousness we owe the nurturing of the idea and this project launch.
Speech by Henry Makgothi at the launch of the SOMAFCO Trust 2007
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